Clipping:Jones has no standing to seek reinstatement
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| Date | Thursday, December 8, 1881 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NL Directors' meeting of 12/7/1881] A … communication was submitted from Charles W. Jones, whose case has been so freely commented upon by the press throughout the country. Voluminous documents accompanied his petition showing that he had not signed with the Cincinnati Club, and the Common Pleas Court of Cleveland had given him a judgment against the Boston Club, which expelled him. The Board refused to reopen the case, or to have any thing to do with it. Therefore Jones remains an expelled player. This action was rather unexpected. It had been believed that a two-years' retirement would be sufficient punishment for that player for any offense (if his action could be termed so) he had committed. Mr. Hurlbert [sic] says that the Board had no other way left for it; that Jones, in failing to present his appeal papers to the annual meeting of 1880, lost his standing, and that his case was now outlawed. So much for Mr. Hurlbert. On the other hand, it is understood by those who know, that had not the American Association decided to reinstate Jones, and thereby have excited the wrath of the esteemed President of the League, Charles would have been all right. Cincinnati Enquirer December 8, 1881 [N.B. The constitution was amended later that day requiring appeals from suspension or expulsion be made within thirty days. “In the old article no time was mentioned for the filing of any petition...”] |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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